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    "id": 1009596,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I hear the Member for Changamwe saying “ machungwa and ODM” and he knows clearly that I have no relationship with that party. It is Ichung’wah. There is “ng’wah”, not “ngwa”. Let me rise to support this Bill by the Member for Ruiru, Hon. Simon King’ara. It is a very important Bill as the Mover has said and has also been said by the Seconder and Hon. Oundo, who has also spoken to it. Public land ideally ought to be vested in the hands of either… it is the last point the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Lands was going to make. It should be vested either in the county governments or the former municipal authorities or in the hands of the Principal Secretary (PS) for the National Treasury. It is astounding that over the years a lot of public land has been lost because the land has not been titled and vested in either the former municipal councils or the county governments as it is today, or with the Principal Secretary (PS) for the National Treasury. The Mover has clearly articulated the issue of the Ruaraka Land Scandal. I do not know why we call it a scandal. It was outright theft of public land. It is also shocking today that thieves stole public land and forced Government to lose over Kshs1.8 billion before the Budget and Appropriations Committee stopped the further theft. I was the Chair then, so I speak with authority because I stopped on the Floor of this House a further payment of Kshs1.5 billion shillings which had already been paid and those issues are under investigations. I take this opportunity to ask the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC)…They know the thieves, they know who was paid. They had the audit trail of the money that was paid. They know the land that was bought by a Cabinet Secretary in Kiserian using money that came from… They have been taking us round in circles for almost three years now purporting to be investigating what is otherwise common sense. The Mover of the Bill has said that it was clear that original owners of that land had been compensated. It was not just the school because even the General Service Unit land that had been taken for the construction of the Outer Ring intersection with the Thika Superhighway, had been compensated. This kind of theft can only be stemmed if we have a law that obligates Government to title land and it is vested either in the county governments or in the hands of the Principal Secretary, National Treasury. This is necessary The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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